"Gaspar Ruiz" by Joseph Conrad is a gripping novella set during a South American revolutionary war, exploring themes of identity and injustice. The narrative plunges into the life of Gaspar Ruiz, a strong and complicated man, caught in the brutal conflict. Accused of desertion, he is sentenced to death, despite his innocence. The story contrasts Gaspar's physical power with the compassion of Lieutenant Santierra, who finds himself drawn into Gaspar’s struggle for survival in a morally ambiguous world. The opening lays the groundwork for an intense examination of human character against the backdrop of a violent revolutionary war.
Gaspar Ruiz
By Joseph Conrad
In a South American revolution, a powerful man wrongly accused of desertion battles for survival amidst betrayal, injustice, and the moral complexities of war.
Genres
Released
2005-08-01
Formats
epub
epub (images)
mobi (images)
mobi
epub3 (images)
txt
Free Download
Summary
About the AuthorJoseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world.
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world.
Total Reviews
10.0k
Total reviews from Goodreads may change
More Like This
Explore books similar to the one you're viewing
More by This Author
Discover other books written by the same author
Related by Category
Discover books in the same genre or category
The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method.
By M. (Charles Gabriel) Le Clerc
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition
By Adam Ferguson
Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
By G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Horton Genealogy or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640.
By Geo. F. (George Firman) Horton
Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform
By Albert Bigelow Paine
The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as described by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin: Being Translations of such portions of the Works of these and other Classical Authors as describe Alexander's Campaigns in Afghanistan, the Panjâb, Sindh, Gedrosia and Karmania
By John Watson McCrindle